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“Curiosity is more important than intelligence.” It was that quote from MIT Sloan that has stuck with me as I looked back on a grand few weeks up and down the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Philly to New York to Boston and back. It was a wonderful few weeks of our own form of …
Safe to say it is almost back to normal, the craziness of Super Bowl Radio Row and the ancillary activities in and around the Phoenix Convention Center. The most interesting thing this year was the continued shift to new platforms and areas that we would not have seen before COVID, and the continued diversity of …
On the last Friday of July for a few hours we went fishing in Atlantic City. Not out in the water, but at the Atlantic City Convention Center. We went to check out the National Sports Collectors Convention, a massive treasure trove of memorabilia new, unique and pretty much what you would expect. So what …
Our student from Elon University, Noah Zaret, continues to go back and break down some of the best episodes of the CUSP Show, the Columbia University Sports Podcast. This time we talk Olympics, women’s sports and India with Neha Aggarwal, the business of the WNBA, MLS and more with Amy Scheer, and the Savannah Bananas …
Three patches, three stories, that was the message this past week as the Philadelphia 76ers, LA Lakers and Washington Capitals all found a niche in breaking some new, and additional, ground for brands looking to engage with teams at the big five leagues in North America. On the historic side, you had the Capitals, who …
As we head into the second week of the Tokyo Olympics we will see lots of track and field, some baseball, more gymnastics and a host of other sports and disciplines which may catch our attention every few years. However we thought it would be good for the disruptive first adopter to look past Tokyo …
We have always heard about how much sports and the passions around the games we love to watch and play can drive people to aspire higher. However the rigors of the day to day side of sports rarely allows for interaction amongst leagues and teams. It happens in cities from time to time, the players …
One of the topics that we started the year looking at so closely was the rise and impact women’s sports would be having. While that was somewhat slowed by the Pandemic, the impact continues to grow again, and now, going into a year hopefully with the Olympics and other tentpole storytelling opportunities, we will see …
As the growing number of Miami Marlins tested positive for COVID 19 on Monday, the social media world went into a tizzy…MLB is on the brink of collapse, sports shouldn’t have come back, let’s send them to a bubble, the NFL is in trouble, the integrity of the game is at stake, and on and …
Here is the fourth in what will continue to be a series of key communicators and their thoughts during this challenging time. We started with Kirk Reynolds, Ray Ridder of the Warriors and Josh Rawitch of the Diamondbacks, and then went to David Higdon of Riot Games, Dee Kundra of FC Bayern Munich, Mike Altieri …